#BringBackOurGirls: The Complex Optics of Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation
The controversy over the politics of representation in #BringBackOurGirls must be used to bolster the broader campaign for women’s safety, autonomy, and right to consent.
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Spacious Photos of People Living in Shoeboxes
Spurred by top and bottom incomes rocketing in opposite directions, these eye-catching and, certainly, morally disorienting bird's eye views capture people in Hong Kong's high rises forced to exist in closet-sized spaces.
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The S. Korean Ferry Disaster: Living Hell in an Increasingly Mediated Age
I'm referring to how and how much participants live the experience live via screens and visual and social media. Which then, we do.
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Finbarr O'Reilly and the Fabulist Art of the Israeli Bomb Shelter
What strains also is the actual imagining of a "promised" land -- with the delusional notion that, once the air raid siren goes off, residents simply meld into the Zionist dream.
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A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats … and Other Modern Myths
If the National Geographic photos are aimed at social reform, they document something else as well: the shift in modernism from a utopian to a dystopian trajectory.
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Gaza Riding Club: The Seduction of Seeing Palestinians Better Off
The potential existence of an elite class in Gaza – as much as America worships wealth and the demonstration of it – makes the Gazans not only look more normative and less like "the other."
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The Sound and the Furry: Is This a News Photo?
Specifically, a news photo delivers news content -- in contrast to "human interest photos" or photos that operate as "infotainment."
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Todd Heisler's Border Vision
What Heisler offers us is a larger eye – the reality that America and Mexico have a more unusual course and unavoidable interconnection.
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Juxtaposition of the Week: Pakistan Toddler Criminals, Not Bug Splats
Two different photos from Pakistan featuring children have circulated widely.
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Clint Takes Empty Chair to Russia. (No More Fronting For Losers, I Guess)
With the waking of the Russian bear, and with the first stirrings of the US presidential season, too, Russian Esquire hits a home run in remixing its metaphors.
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On Pieter Hugo's Portraits of Reconciliation from Rwanda
It being both fair and audacious to call them couples, it feels like these pairs have been through hellfire, then grafted together.
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Syrian Battlefield Filled With Cameras … But What Are We Looking At?
What if I told you this photo was more related to Kickstarter than the overall fortunes of the Syrian rebels in a long running conflict with the Syrian regime?
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Remembering Anja Niedringhaus: She Was Ironic, Too
Her photography was often brilliant, not just as reportage, but as subtle commentary. If others have captured Anja the documentarian, the humanist or the advocate for women, these images demonstrate her gift for irony.
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Drones vs. Stones: A Mid-East Air War Visual Update
If both sides in the Israel-Palestine conflict are using drones, and the technology is such that even individuals can operate one, doesn't it stand to reason I'd find photo for both sides?
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Instagram Mining: whitehouse meets popefrancis
With world leaders and heads of state now standard fixtures on Instagram, I was curious about your take on each's version of the Obama-Pope, Pope-Obama meet up.
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Archivin': When Obama Met Putin
With Russia suddenly vacuuming up real estate, we thought a little background was in order.
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The Photo that Sums up the Fukushima Anniversary
It's hard to tell what was most surreal as the Fukushima story surfaced for a day.
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On the Russian Military Using Unmarked Uniforms
If soldiers are not wearing insignia, they are partially out of uniform; if they are partially out of uniform, they are that much closer to being private militias, gangs, or thugs.
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